Brendan Griffin (Kerry South, Fine Gael)
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729. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if a local authority has the right to use section 160 of the Planning Act to prevent persons from playing football on private property; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34601/15]

Paudie Coffey (Waterford, Fine Gael)
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Enforcement of planning control relates to “development” which under section 3 of the Planning and Development Act 2000, as amended, means ”the carrying out of any works on, in, over or under land or the making of any material change in the use of any structures or other land”. Playing football on private property could not comprise development unless it could be considered to involve a material change in the use of land.